Genomics, proteomics and metabolomics

P3 uses forward and reverse genetics to identify regulatory genes of plant development and defence.

Researchers studying epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation and non-coding RNAs, can understand their impacts on plant defence, development, and evolutionary processes.

The interactions between genes, proteins and metabolites on the basis of an interactive ‘-omics platform’, involving genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, as well as targeted and untargeted metabolomics can give insights into how the might be applied to crop defence.